Thomas Ivey
Partner Head of Skadden\'s Palo Alto Corporate m & a Group @Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates
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Partner Head of Skadden\'s Palo Alto Corporate m & a Group @Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates
Palo Alto, CA, US
My transactions include advising- McClatchy Company, the nation’s second-largest newspaper company, in the $312 millionsale of substantially all of its assets to its largest bondholder Chatham Asset Management- ServiceNow, Inc in its $1.5 billion offering of 1.400% notes due 2030- Autodesk, Inc. in its $500 million offering of 2.850% notes due 2030- 8x8, Inc. in its $75 million Rule 144A/Regulation S offering of 0.50% convertible senior notes due 2024- the special committee of the SolarCity board of directors in the company’s $2.6 billion sale to Tesla Motors- The Public Investment Fund of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in its $3.5 billion investment in Uber Technologies- Lattice Semiconductor Corporation in its $1.3 billion acquisition by Canyon Bridge Capital Partners Inc; and in its $600 million acquisition of Silicon Image, Inc- Yahoo! Inc. in connection with Alibaba Group Holding Limited’s $25 billion initial public offering and listing on the New York Stock Exchange (the largest-ever IPO). Pursuant to the IPO, Yahoo! sold a portion of its stake in Alibaba for more than $9 billion- Azure Power Global Limited (India) in its initial public offering of equity shares and listing on the NYSE and in its concurrent private placement, raising a combined $136 million- the joint bookrunning managers in the IPO of American Depositary Shares and listing on Nasdaq of Mesoblast Limited (Australia)- the underwriters of SolarCity Corporation in its IPO and subsequent financings- VMware in its $1.1 billion IPO and in investments in VMware by Cisco and Intel Capital- WL Ross Holding Corp. in its $1.6 billion acquisition of Nexeo Solutions Holdings and its $500 million IPO- TiVo in its $1.1 billion sale to Rovi Corporation and its $230 million Rule 144A offering of 2% convertible senior notes due 2021; and- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in connection with its $4.3 billion sale to Western Digital as well as two prior acquisitions.
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
J.D.
UCLA
BA
SKILLS
ABOUT THOMAS IVEY
I am a partner and head of Skadden’s Palo Alto M&A/Corporate Group, the only M&A practice in the San Francisco Bay Area ranked in Chambers USA\'s prestigious Band 1. I represent clients in a broad range of corporate and securities law matters, advising public and private companies in complex transactions, including the issuance of equity and debt, M&A, joint ventures, exchange offers and restructurings. I\'m a frequent adviser to boards of directors on corporate governance and activist situations and regularly represent underwriters, placement agents and financial advisors in technology-related transactions.I am honored to be ranked both in Chambers USA and Chambers Global, as well as in and Best Lawyers in America. Our corporate team has been recognized a number of times by The Recorder, the Daily Journal and other local and national publications for having one of Silicon Valley\'s most innovative and successful corporate practices. In certain jurisdictions, this may be considered attorney advertising.
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